COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONCask; Originally a Regular beer. Relegated to a monthly special for May 2009. Rereleased 2012 as "golden XPA" at 4.3% ABV A pale golden beer with a citrus hop aroma, a full malty flavour and a clean bittersweet finish.
Hops: Northdown, Cascade (original recipe also included Hallertau Hersbrucker)

Two hand-pulled pints in ’The Barley’, a modern refurbished pub in Newport, Shropshire on 27 Apr 2013.
Light golden body with an off-white head which started off thin and got thinner by the second.
No huge aroma: a blend of biscuity malts and floral hops almost cancelled each other out.
The taste was fairly bland I’m afraid: some malt semi-sweetness and a hop content that tried to add some bitterness, but overall it didn’t do it for me, even though I had two pints, just to make sure. Mildly citrus towards the end of each sip, but nothing strong or robust about the beer at all.
Mid-bodied and OK as a session beer I suppose, just lacked the umph I’d have liked.

This beer had a nasy aroma of stale farts, I’m unsure what causes this as I’ve had it with a few beers, maybe it’s a type of hop or malt which causes it. The rest of beer was fine, taste was medium bitter

[cask at the Caledonian Brewery, Edinburgh] Pour is clear as a bell, large fluffy white head. Looks very inviting. Aroma is faintly sweet and musty, like hay in a loft after a long summer. The taste, surprisingly, is similar. Backed up by that trademark caramelised sweetspot flavour I just don’t get on with, the whole thing finishes just too sweet for my taste [31012013]

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